Category: Social Media

Networking before the Internet was done manually and it wasn’t that easy. Unless you have real connections to big wigs in the industry that you’re in, there is no way you could just contact them or reach out them unless you approach them personally and introduce yourself. But thanks to the Internet, modern day entrepreneurs can get a hold of whoever they want to reach out to share their products or services. This is through the wonderful works of social networking sites. There are best practices in using them and that is among the things that we are going to discuss today.

You should also know the best social networking sites where you could market your business. There are a lot of them online but it’s best to use the top and the most popular ones to guarantee hits. They are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest. These are so far the ones that you could trust to bring in hits on your site. You could maximize their use by posting photos, videos and short snippets of what you’re offering. You can even blog with some of them like with Tumblr.

As part of maximizing the full potential of social media, only share quality posts. Release some teasers of your projects or your product before their official release. Create a hype using these platforms. A lot of entrepreneurs have achieved success in their business just because of social media. As for the best practices, not spamming the feeds of your followers is a golden rule in this industry. You could get blocked or your followers could also unfollow you just because you annoyed them with your spams. What do we mean by spam? It’s the flooding of post that usually intends to sell them your product or services.

You could directly posts items that you want to sell on your social media, but don’t do it repeatedly because even sites like Twitter could close your account with them if they flag you as a spammer. When this happens, then you will lose an opportunity to reach out to your demographics.

Don’t just post stuff for the sake of posting them. Make sure that they are relevant and informative to your target audience. People love something that they could use, interact with and other things that would leave them amuse and amaze. If you get to catch their attention in just a few characters on Twitter or some really intriguing photo on Instagram, then you know that you’re doing a good job.

The experts in this field would agree that the work involving posting and sharing on social media could be tedious, but it’s all worth it once you see the improving flow of traffic towards your site and of course the sale that you will be getting out of them.

Social media is highly powerful these days and it’s best to take advantage of its hype and the things that it could do to improve your business online.